This article deals with the comparison of various estimators of the m parameter from the Nakagami distribution. This kind of distribution has been used in many engineering applications and we present another possible application in biomedical engineering, particularly the ultrasound tissue characterization in the echocardiographic application. Matlab 6.5 was used as a proper tool for fast and e...

Several statistical models have been proposed in the literature to describe the behavior of speckles. Among them, the Nakagami distribution has proven to very accurately characterize the speckle behavior in tissues. However, it fails when describing the heavier tails caused by the impulsive response of a speckle. The Generalized Gamma (GG) distribution (which also generalizes the Nakagami distr...

This paper presents analytical solutions for the performance of a single relay aided amplify-and-forward (AF) direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) system over Rayleigh/Nakagami-m fading channels. The source-destination channel is assumed to be Rayleigh distributed while relay-destination link is Nakagami-m distributed. First, a cumulative distribution function (CDF) is derive...

We derive an infinite series expression of the average signal-to-noise ratio ( S N R ) gain for a dual selection combining system under Nakagamiln fading using a series representation of the bivariate cumulative probability distribution function. The average S N R gain expression is shown to relate to the Nakagami shape factor m, the power correlation and the power allocation ratio.

Gas bubbles induced during the radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of tissues can affect the detection of ablation zones (necrosis zone or thermal lesion) during ultrasound elastography. To resolve this problem, our previous study proposed ultrasound Nakagami imaging for detecting thermal-induced bubble formation to evaluate ablation zones. To prepare for future applications, this study (i) created a...

Wireless communication system working over Gamma shadowed Nakagami-m multipath fading channel in the presence of cochannel interference exposed to Nakagami-m short term fading and Gamma long term fading is investigated in this work. In interference limited channel, the ratio of desired signal envelope and interference is important performance measure. For considered model signal to interference...

Space-time trellis codes provide both diversity gain and coding gain. There are two different design criteria proposed for spacetime trellis codes (STTCs), namely the rank and determinant criteria (RDC) and the Euclidean distance design criteria (EDC). In this paper, we present the performance of STTCs over Nakagami fading channels. Our results show that the STTCs designed for Rayleigh fading c...

In this study, we derive new expressions for the probability of outage where a mobile unit receives a Nakagami desired signal and multiple, cochannel, independent Nakagami interferers. Unlike some previous results, the expressions are usable when the Nakagami fading parameter, m , is not necessarily an integer. An exact formula is also derived for the outage probability when the desired signal ...

This paper present the performance analysis of two-hop relayed transmission over asymmetric Rayleigh and Nakagami-m fading environment. Nakagami-m fading is considered because it works as generalized fading model. The model proposed by Nakagami uses m parameter to describe the fading conditions for both Rayleigh and Rician fading. Closed form expression for Outage Probability and Average Bit Er...